Or of course a couple of Canadian variants: dumb as a bag of hammers and smart like a bean (from the Saskatchewan Ukrainian expression strong like an ox, smart like a bean.) Chris, (who is sometimes not the sharpest tool in the shed and sometimes one sandwich short of a picnic.) --- CHRIS CORRIGAN Bowen Island, BC, Canada http://www.chriscorrigan.com [email protected] (604) 947-9236 -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Harrison Owen Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 3:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: dufuses At 05:45 PM 7/4/2003 +0200, Susanne Hildebrand wrote:
And still I´m chewing on things like power, economic constraints, subtle domination structures. no questions yet. just - what is a dufus? ein Doofie vielleicht? Alternatives might be -- "not the brightest candle on the cake," or "playing with half a deck of cards." Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 USA phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com/> Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org <http://www.openspaceworld.org/> Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected] Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
